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NEW DELHI: With the IIT alumni all set to take the government and IIT Council to court over the common entrance examination, the institutes' faculty federation has stepped up its attack as well. The IIT Kanpur faculty federation on Sunday said that the IIT Council's green signal to new common entrance examination was a "breach of trust". They stressed that any new system should not be introduced before 2014. "For students aspiring to appear in JEE 2013, the IIT Council proposal is a breach of trust.

BANGALORE: In 2010, Myntra was selling customised apparel online, earning revenue of Rs 1 crore a month and growing at a healthy rate, but its founder Mukesh Bansal was not satisfied. He knew he had to stake it all and switch his business model if he wanted to transform his startup into a top player in Indian e-commerce. And that's what the IIT Kanpur alumnus did. He changed Myntra into a multi-brand fashion destination that made shopping for clothes online chic in India. Myntra, which Bansal cofounded with three other IIT alumni, is targeting sales of 1,500 crore in fiscal 2015 and expects to cross 10,000 crore in turnover within four years.

NEW DELHI: Premier institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are planning to go the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) way, in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi planning an ambitious launch of the Swayam Bharat programme. While IIT Bombay (IIT-B) and IIM Bangalore have already announced the launch of MOOCs with overseas partners, IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) could be next in line, with the institute submitting a proposal to the HRD ministry.

Education 1966: Mount Carmel School, Lucknow—My father had a transferrable job and I changed many schools while growing up. Mount Carmel in Lucknow was my first school. All I remember is that it was a co-ed school till Class II and I was basically in a girls' school. 1974-1975: St John's, Karnal—I did my Class IX and a part of my Xth from here. 1975-1977: Kendriya Vidyalaya, Guwahati—I got transferred in the middle of Class X as my father got transferred to the North East.

KORAMANGALA: Koramangala has given birth to many startups and Mebelkart Technologies, which owns and runs the online furniture shop Mebelkart.com, is one of those growing in a big way. This startup, formed in Koramangala, is operating in seven cities as of now. MONEY MATTERS "The seeds of the company were sown in the famous Chaiwalla shop in 5th block 1st cross, near Sukh Sagar hotel. The place remained as the meeting point of the team before we got our office," said Ranjeet Vimal, co-founder and CTO of the company.

MUMBAI: Out of the 1.7 lakh students who sat for CAT 2014, 16 won a 100 percentile score to emerge as toppers. A day after the declaration of the results, ET managed to track down a bunch of these star performers. While CAT results were delayed by a week to ensure a smooth process, candidates trying to access the site from Saturday evening faced numerous difficulties, including being unable to log on. As a result, compared to other years, data about the CAT toppers has been trickling in rather slowly.

MUMBAI: Flush with a record billion-dollars-plus raised during the first nine months of this year, dozens of startups are making a beeline for IIT placement season set to kick off in December this year. Already, the number of startups who have enrolled for the campus placement season this year has doubled or trebled at many IITs, according to campus sources. For example, IIT Madras which had only seven startups last year, expects at least 30 to come calling this year. "Over 14 startups have already registered, out of which 11 will hire exclusively from us," Vishranth Suresh, academic affairs secretary, IIT Madras, said.

NEW DELHI: The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are pulling all stops to address the faculty shortage, with a little help from the ministry of human resources development (MHRD). While the institutes are doing everything they can from roping in retired professors to shortterm migration of teachers between IITs, the MHRD is working on relaxing the norms on faculty mobility. The idea is to help the IITs touch a 10:1 ratio of students to faculty. "There is no magic wand to get the best faculty; one has to just try hard and at the same time create a good research culture.

MUMBAI: At least 40 students in the batch of 2015 across Indian Institutes of Technology have decided to shun the lure of fat paycheques to start their own ventures, buoyed by the success of several existing startups and increasing presence of venture capitalists. And it's not just tech-based enterprises these IITians are venturing into; they will get into spaces such as tourism, hiring, music and food. "The confidence to pursue entrepreneurial ventures right out of college (or when in college)

NEW DELHI: Abheek Anand , 32, was feeling a tad sad during his Singapore Airlines flight from San Francisco, which landed here on Tuesday morning. That's because the IIT-Delhi alumnus sold his startup Tagtile to Facebook last Friday after "nurturing it for a year like a baby". "We were looking for a distribution network. And Facebook was looking for a technology partner in the mobile space. What better network on the planet than Facebook," says Anand, still jet-lagged from an 18-hour flight, and clad in jeans and a check shirt.